15 June 2008

GARY BARTZ - ANOTHER EARTH

Gary Bartz for Milestone from 1968Charles Tolliver (trumpet), Gary Bartz (alto sax), Pharoah Sanders (tenor sax), Stanley Cowell (piano), Reggie Workman (bass), Freddie Waits (drums)A fantastic album of spritual jazz-Dusty Groove on the case:Another Earth is amazing one of the first lps that Gary Bartz ever cut done during a time when he'd been working with Max Roach and a super-hip group of younger soul jazz players who would go onto shape the sound of the 70s. Bartz leads a group that includes Stanley Cowell, Freddy Waits, Charles Tolliver, Pharoah Sanders, and Reggie Workman -- and the music sounds like it was lifted from one of the best albums on Strata East from the 70s. There's no funk, no vocals, no weird rhythms just pure spiritual jazz, played to perfection, and filled with a creative vitality that most of the players had lost a few years later.Ripped @320 from the Milestone cd reissue in 1998.

I think much of Bartz and its great to see an album I din't have. Just one point, any chance of the first 7 tracks, presumably the first album of this double LP?Sorry to be a pain, as I really appreciate the effort and time you put into this excellent blog.

Oh man, this looks so tempting... :)Thanks a lot, Tolliver, Cowell and the unsung Waits are some of the most welcome guys this side of the street. I can't wait to hear those guys tackle Sanders' idiosyncratic style :)Thanks again!!

I only became hip to the blogosphere about a month ago (when you had already gone) and have spent lots of time happily reading and d/ling everyone's faves since then. Your blog was mentioned with affection in loads of places and I felt sorry to have missed it but here we are again it would seem so, although this is my first time on your site, welcome back.

As to this album, I'm afraid I have no experience of Gary Bartz as a leader but I'm crazy about Pharoah Sanders and Charles Tolliver so I'm really looking forward to this.